PSY 1305 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Margaret Floy Washburn, Mary Whiton Calkins, Acetylcholine

• School: Baylor University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1305
• Professor: Danielle Young

Document Summary

Charts review and other review for prologue through chapter 4. First lab: where psych is born, wundt and titchner, structuralism. John b watson: said psych was the science of observable behavior. Second president of apa and first to receive psychology phd: margaret floy washburn. Psychological influence: learned fears and expectations, emotional responses, cognitive processing. Acetylcholine: enables muscle action, learning, and memory, alzhimers. Serotonin: affects mood, hunger, sleep, and arousal, linked to depression. Rem sleep: increases as the night goes on, rapid eye movement, saw toothed waves, heart rate rises, breathing is rapid and irregular, muscles moving, paradoxical sleep bc body is calm but internally aroused. Nrem-1: hypnotic jerks, hallucinations, light sleep, 5-10 min. Nrem-2: sleep spindles, bursts of rapid brain activity, more relaxed sleep, 20 min.